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The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

Seth Godin

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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Cows Keys Purple
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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Belief Believe Brilliant Happen
When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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Believe Entrepreneur Jobs
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Archive Goal People
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
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Artist Attitude Inspirational Life
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Differences Making Miss Room Struggle
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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Males Marketing Stuff
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Better Done Offense Problem Tables

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